Seal producing apparatus
AssigneesKing Jim Co., Ltd., Seiko Epson Corporation
InventorsTakuya Suetani, Kiyoshi Ogawa, Tomoyuki Shimmura, Masahiko Nunokawa
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Abstract
A seal producing apparatus includes file storing and recalling procedures wherein calling of a file is permitted only when a seal loaded in the seal producing apparatus is a seal type having a shape and size suitable to contain the allowable number of lines and the allowable number of characters per line in the seal type associated with the file to be called and when the size of the seal type of the seal loaded in the seal producing apparatus is equal to or larger than the size of the seal type associated with the file to be called.
Claims15
A seal producing apparatus in which an imprint pattern according to an input character string is formed on a seal face member of a seal, said seal producing apparatus comprising:
- file storage means for storing, as a file, imprint information including information of a character string and information of a print attribute;
- a file management table which stores information used for managing storage state at the file storage means, the information stored in the file management table including information of seal type;
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- file editing/managing means for managing and editing the file stored in the file storage means by using the information stored in the file management table;
- said file editing/managing means having at least a registration portion for registering a file and a calling portion for calling a file;
- said calling portion permitting calling of a file only when a predetermined relationship is established between a seal type of a seal loaded in the seal producing apparatus and a seal type associated with a file to be called;
- said predetermined relationship being that the seal loaded in the seal producing apparatus is a seal type having a shape and size suitable to contain the allowable number of lines and the allowable number of characters per line in the seal type associated with the file to be called and that the size of the seal type of the seal loaded in the seal producing apparatus is equal to or larger than the size of the seal type associated with the file to be called.
A seal producing apparatus in which an imprint pattern according to an input character string is formed on a seal face member of a seal, said seal producing apparatus comprising:
- loaded-seal replacement detection means for detecting, while the seal producing apparatus is in a character string input state, that a new seal is loaded in the seal producing apparatus replacing a previously loaded seal;
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- character string maintenance/deletion control means which maintains an input character string held before the replacement of the previously loaded seal by the newly loaded seal when a predetermined relationship is established between seal types of the previously and newly loaded seals before and after the replacement, but deletes the input character string held before the replacement of the previously loaded seal when the predetermined relationship is not established between seal types of the previously and newly loaded seals before and after the replacement;
- said predetermined relationship being that the newly loaded seal is a seal type having a shape and size suitable to contain the allowable number of lines and the allowable number of characters per line in the seal type associated with the previously loaded seal and that the size of the seal type of the newly loaded seal is equal to or larger than the size of the seal type of the previously loaded seal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.